(Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2019) We Lived Happily during the War And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: … Continued
Translated from Hebrew by Tal Nitzan and Ilya Kaminsky. It’s not a green bench in the children’s room It’s a crocodile It’s not a crocodile It’s the future: here’s the slow shift of his eyes here’s the dreadful … Continued
Praise for this wending, this bearing beginning. The least stuck is groaning, the most has given in. Words a rotted barn, full of must and straw and animals sleeping. I want to dream with you the mountainsides, the beaches, the … Continued
Buy Digital Chemistry Buy Chemistry Follow TLR’s poetry instagram project Editor’s Letter by Michael Morse It’s been a while since I’ve been in that kind of lab, but I’m still a student of composition and properties and how things are … Continued
Books Discussed: The Sad Epistles by Emma Bolden (Chicago, IL: Dancing Girl Press, 2008) Desiring Map by Megan Kaminski (Atlanta, GA: Coconut Books, 2013) In much of contemporary experimental writing, there is a tendency to valorize fragmented approaches to the … Continued
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